Changes in primary location

Skate's notes that this ranking was based on four criteria: period on the mar-ket, number of participants, participation figures, and reputation among peers.That last category is, of course, somewhat subjective and depends on whom you ask.
Because the amount of contemporary art shown at TEFAF is considerably lower than at the other fairs listed, however, I have taken it out of my top-ten list here and added the thirteenth fair on Skate's list, Art Brussels (Brussels), instead, to create a somewhat customized list of the Top Ten International Contemporary Art Fairs for 2014, which we'll examine below for clues their participating galleries can reveal about shifts in the global contemporary art market. (I should perhaps also explain I did not add the eleventh and twelfth fairs on Skate's list: Art Basel in Hong Kong and Arte Fiera Bologna, respectively. In 2013 Art Basel in Hong Kong had only just undergone a change in ownership and branding, and so in 2014 it was basi-cally a very different entity from what it had been in 2008, making the comparison in their participating galleries less meaningful. Also, despite Skate's ranking, Arte Fira Bologna is overwhelmingly a national fair and not as internationally influential as the Skate's ranking would suggest in my opinion. Moreover, Artissima already provides insights into the Italian market's global influence, and Brussels is viewed as an up-and-coming contemporary art capital, so it helps round out the geographical diversity of my top-ten list.)